US Open, New-York, Aug. 27-Sep.9

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Well it seems that Marcos's back pb wasn't too serious. Thankfully!

Next week he's gonna play in New York, the US Open being the last Grand Slam of the season.

He's to play a qualifier for the 1st round.

Official site: www.usopen.org/

Main Singles Draw:

[1]R.FEDERER v D.YOUNG
[Q] v B.PHAU
A.RAMOS v [WC]R.GINEPRI
R.MACHADO v [25]F.VERDASCO

[23]M.FISH v G.SOEDA
N.DAVYDENKO v [Q]
I.KARLOVIC v [Q]
M.RUSSELL v [16]G.SIMON

[11]N.ALMAGRO v R.STEPANEK
N.MAHUT v P.PETZSCHNER
B.KAVCIC v F.CIPOLLA
[WC]J.SOCK v [22]F.MAYER

[27]S.QUERREY v Y.LU
R.RAMIREZ HIDALGO v S.DEVVARMAN
D.ISTOMIN v J.ZOPP
D.GOFFIN v [6]T.BERDYCH

[3]A.MURRAY v A.BOGOMOLOV JR.
[Q] v I.DODIG
T.BELLUCCI v P.ANDUJAR
R.HAASE v [30]F.LOPEZ

[24]M.GRANOLLERS v [WC]D.KUDLA
L.LACKO v [WC]J.BLAKE
P.MATHIEU v I.ANDREEV
S.GIRALDO v [15]M.RAONIC

[12]M.CILIC v M.MATOSEVIC
[Q] v A.UNGUR
[Q] v [Q]
[Q] v [17]K.NISHIKORI

[32]J.CHARDY v F.VOLANDRI
T.ITO v M.EBDEN
M.KLIZAN v A.FALLA
[Q] v [5]J.TSONGA

[8]J.TIPSAREVIC v [WC]G.RUFIN
B.BAKER v J.HAJEK
[Q] v [Q]
C.STEBE v [29]V.TROICKI

[19]P.KOHLSCHREIBER v M.LLODRA
G.DIMITROV v B.PAIRE
M.KUKUSHKIN v J.NIEMINEN
X.MALISSE v [9]J.ISNER

[13]R.GASQUET v A.MONTANES
J.MELZER v [Q]
[WC]S.JOHNSON v R.RAM
E.GULBIS v [21]T.HAAS

[28]M.YOUZHNY v G.MULLER
T.KAMKE v [WC]L.HEWITT
[Q] v D.GIMENO-TRAVER
K.ANDERSON v [4]D.FERRER

[7]J.DEL POTRO v D.NALBANDIAN
B.BECKER v R.HARRISON
L.KUBOT v L.MAYER
T.ROBREDO v [26]A.SEPPI

[20]A.RODDICK v [Q]
C.BERLOCQ v B.TOMIC
E.ROGER-VASSELIN v F.FOGNINI
G.GARCIA-LOPEZ v [10]J.MONACO

[14]A.DOLGOPOLOV v J.LEVINE
M.BAGHDATIS v [Q]
S.DARCIS v M.JAZIRI
S.STAKHOVSKY v [18]S.WAWRINKA

[31]J.BENNETEAU v O.ROCHUS
[WC]D.NOVIKOV v J.JANOWICZ
R.DUTRA SILVA v[Q]
P.LORENZI v [2]N.DJOKOVIC

Go for it Marcos!!

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Tuesday Order of Play:

Court 7 start 11AM

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Ivo Karlovic (CRO)
vs.
Jimmy Wang (TPE)

followed by

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)[13]
vs.
Johanna Larsson (SWE)

followed by

Men's Singles - 1st Round
Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)
vs.
Matthias Bachinger (GER)

followed by

Women's Singles - 1st Round
Mirjana Lucic (CRO)
vs.
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP)

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Marcos won 6-2 4-6 6-4 6-7 7-6.

Next opponent Dolgopolov.

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Friday OoP

COURT 17

Matches Start at 11:00 AM

Men's Doubles - 2nd Round
Eric Butorac (USA)/Paul Hanley(AUS) vs. Bob Bryan (USA)[2]/Mike Bryan(USA)[2]

Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Richard Gasquet (FRA)[13] vs. Bradley Klahn (USA)

Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR)[14] vs. Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)

Mixed Doubles - 1st Round
Irina Falconi (USA)/Steve Johnson(USA) vs. Kim Clijsters (BEL)/Bob Bryan(USA)

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Come on Marcos!

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From Marcos's official website:

Saturday, 01 September, 2012

Marcos’ US Open campaign came to an end on Friday evening in New York as he was beaten 6-4, 3-6, 6-0, 7-6(5) by Ukrainian No. 14 seed Alexandr Dolgopolov.

After surrendering the first set by one break of serve, Marcos was quick to hit back at his opponent, breaking for a 3-1 lead in the second set before levelling the match. However, a run of seven straight games for Dolgopolov saw the Ukrainian take a commanding lead in the encounter.

Marcos composed himself well and had two chances to send the match into a deciding set. But he failed to close out the fourth set when serving at 5-4 and 6-5, and paid the price in the ensuing tie-break as Dolgopolov claimed victory in two hours and 30 minutes.

www.baghdatis.com/articles/view/dolgopolov-ends-marcos-campaign

I would have wished him to go further for sure